Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

By Doltot, Miron

Book Id: WPLBN0002118011
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File Size: 1.27 MB
Reproduction Date: 1985

Title:	Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
Author:	Doltot, Miron
Volume:
Language:	Russian
Subject:	Fiction, World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc., Holodomor
Collections:	Leadership, Authors Community, Favorites from the National Library of China, Agriculture, Sociology, Literature, Most Popular Books in China, Social Sciences, History
Historic Publication Date:	1985
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Co.

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Citation APA MLA Chicago Dolot, B. M. (1985). Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.